A few ounces of rock and dust retrieved from the distant asteroid Bennu show evidence of the building blocks of life.

Asteroid Bennu is a primordial goldmine of secrets. A relic from our early solar system, it may hold molecular precursors to the origin of life.

NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission returned 121.6 grams of sample from asteroid (101955) Bennu in September 2023—the largest sample ever returned to Earth. Now, an international team of OSIRIS-REx sample ...

The asteroid Bennu is puzzling scientists, with samples from the space rock showing weirder properties than they expected. These include extremely high nitrogen levels and improbably magnetic ...

Rock and dust samples from the Bennu asteroid contain molecules that are the "key to life" on Earth, NASA officials announced on Wednesday.

Bennu was discovered in 1999 and is believed to be part of a larger asteroid that collided with another space rock. It’s about one-third of a mile wide and is roughly the height of the Empire ...

Asteroid that passes nearby could hit Earth in the future, NASA says There is a 1 in 2,700 chance the Bennu asteroid could hit Earth by 2182.

Here's what we know.But is it going to hit? And why does September 24, 2182 keep getting mentioned? First of all, Bennu was largely chosen for a visit by NASA's OSIRIS-REx due to the excellent ...

When the OSIRIS-REx mission touched down in Utah with a sample from the 4.5-billion-year-old asteroid, Bennu, scientists who opened the hatch gave an audible gasp when they saw what was inside ...

Dust on asteroids like Bennu and Ryugu could bounce off of the surface and leave only boulders behind, new research suggests.

NASA's analysis of the Bennu samples captured by OSIRIS-REx continues to leave scientists scratching their heads.